on on ✨For my drama adventure project, I chose option3, which is to make a vlog about my daily life as a student during the virus. I filmed many short videos about the events and activities that happened. After combining them, I used apps and edited my vlog; including subtitles and some short words to explain what is happening throughout the day. Here is a 3-minute video about my life ?
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on on on From the book-Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief- Percy himself showed his weaknesses in managing emotions and how to deal with distractions during school. Evidence was shown in the book, and the articles that’s referring to Managing emotions/ADHD.
Managing Emotions/Self-Management//
Percy’s choices are often affected by his strong emotions and distractions from others. He can improve choices by working on managing his emotions in a better way. Percy is often frustrated about upcoming things, for example, a quote from p.18:” One evening before my final, I got so frustrated that I threw the Cambridge guide to Greek mythology across my dorm room.”. This quote showed Percy’s frustration caused him to throw books around his dorm room, so he had to use his own way to release his stress. The quote from the article about self-management/ emotion management:” Your emotional responses don’t necessarily have much to do with the current situation, or to reason, but you can overcome them with reason and being aware of your reactions.” Saying that Percy’s reactions may not relate to what happened, it’s just because of his anger that’s growing “inside”. Another example, during the field trip, Percy got very annoyed by Nancy BoBofit, he blurted out his frustrations right from his mouth. “Will you shut up?!?–It came out louder than I meant.”; right after his burst of words, Percy regretted right away. It’s because he failed again, on managing his emotions/feelings. Connected to a quote from the article: ”Stopping before you decide to give your self a chance to think..”. This quote relates to Percy’s action of blurting out words which he later regretted, giving yourself a chance to think about your next reaction is always a good choice when dealing with thoughts and feelings. Speaking about how Percy acts in school, he some times gets “annoyed” by his teacher; “Finally, when our English teacher Mr.Nicoll, asked me for the millionth time why I was too lazy to study for the spelling test, I snapped. I called him an old sot…”. Regarding this action, Percy again blurted out words he’d regret just then, this time they became random nick-names. One advice for him is he should have thought about how his words mean to others, when random words pop out of someone’s mouth, it’d be hard to understand what they actually mean. Again, considering about every possible action and result matters a lot. By managing his own emotions, more effectively, Percy will make better choices.
Attitude Towards School//
Percy’s choices sometimes gets distracted by his ADHD. Therefore, he’s always distracted by the surrounding, he couldn’t pay attention in class. He would have made some better choices if he understand his own situation. “You wouldn’t think he’d cool, but he told stories and jokes and let us play games in class, he was the only teacher whose class didn’t put me to sleep.” Percy talked about his favorite teacher-Mr.Brunner. According to the article about ADHD, scientists stated: “It is not true that people with a diffused attentional style can never focus on one thing, either. They might be very focused when something interests them..”. The fact that Percy might have ADHD ( based on his behaviors), this quote is a great suggestion for his teachers; Mr. Brunner’s way of teaching interested him, Percy is willing to participate in the activities. Meanwhile, the article mentions ADHD isn’t always a bad thing, the matter is how Percy and his teachers treat ADHD. By treating ADHD, a new learning environment could help Percy to concentrate better, might as well be affecting Percy’s attitude towards school. Percy’s choices would improve if more people understand ADHD, and how it would affect someone in a certain way such as their weakness in concentrating.
Overall, conflicts on focusing in class and self-management have been bothering Percy for a long time. Percy would improve his choices, if only he could stop before reacting, give himself a chance to think, and get a deeper understanding of his situation!
on In the first chapter, Percy Jackson was struggling to control his emotions, causing endless troubles, and always dealing with others. Nancy bobofit is annoying him on the bus. Many times, and still non-stopped. It seems like it’s very hard for him to calm down, his anger will only grow. Percy Jackson said: “I’m going to kill her” this shows that Percy Jackson is not really good at controlling his emotions. He used extreme words like -kill-. He is impatient. When Percy Jackson wants to fight back, Grover stopped him: “You’re already on Probation!”. From Grover’s words, I can tell Percy Jackson might be a troubled-child. The principal is not satisfied with his behaviors, and Percy Jackson gets detentions from the school. Also showing he has been a troubled kid for a long time, because Grover said: “You know who’ll get blamed if anything happens.”. Grover is already used to staying with him. When Nancy bobofit snickered something about the naked guy on the museum stele, Percy Jackson turned around and said: “Will you shut up?”. This sentence showed Percy Jackson is straight-forward, he tell his thoughts aloud. Also, from the sentence: It came out louder than I meant to. I think he needs to be mindful of saying more respectful words. The principal often says to him: “Count to ten, get control of your temper.”. From his words and actions, it’s clear to see that he is someone who struggles a lot to control his inside, not just his feelings, also including his behaviors and actions. He is restless, causing trouble. Overall, he is not capable/able to keep and control his anger, that leads to all the trouble(the root/cause of the trouble).
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Today in Humanities, we simulated ancient civilizations’ daily life. We were required to create our own language, laws, and race to build to secret invention. Each group randomly owned different resources, you will have to trade for other resources if it’s needed in your group. The main goal was to finish all the creating/planing, so that your team will successfully open the secrect blueprint of the temple.
During the Early-Civilization simulation activity, I personally worked on writing our laws, after I finished, I contributed in building the secret invention. We divided all the jobs, each person gets the chance to pick the job that they’re most interested in. I choose to work on writing 5 laws. I decided to write 5 different laws form each important category, for example: If you get caught robbing others, you’ll have to stay in prison for 3 months.
Fortunately, our group got everything we needed except for one fork. We wanted to trade with the other groups but there was no one who was willing to trade with us. The trade circle wasn’t really “active”. Everyone was just working in their own groups, and people started panicking at the last minute. That’s also one mistake that we made.
Our biggest accomplishment as a civilization/group was that we finished everything that was required on the list (including our top-secrect invention:) ) We collaborated as a team very well, everyone was able to find a job that they were interested in. No one was left out, and we used our time efficiently.
Something we would like to improve: be the active group in the trading circle; because all we did was waiting for someone to come, it might help if we just go and ask. This part wasted 1/3 of our time, getting the result of we finished building the invention but didn’t have enough time to try it out on our own. Our weakest point as a civilization was too we all worked on one small task at the same time (waiting to trade) so we ended up with not enough time to try out the invention! :(((
on I decide to do JianBing for my OneDay because I’m a fan of traditional food. My plan is to make a recipe/step telling document to teach and tell people how to make JianBing. After filming making Jianbing step by step, I will post or print the document as the final project to present! My inspiration was all the cool recipe books about the traditional foods. One thing I did well was I cracked the eggs on my Jianbing and flip it over. I learned how to smooth the Jianbing and I learned how to wrap it together. One thing I faced is that I can not control the amount of flour liquid that I should use, but after practicing for a while, I found some tips that can help me. I think OneDay is important because students get to learn about something they like, and to work on a project that they are interested.
on https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1128878728953200642http:// This is my Humanities project about Early humans and us!
on The hardest thing about this project is to combine materials together, find out which material can be used in our project. We also struggled a bit in deciding what materials are we going to add on the outside and which will be the inside layer. I think our cup design fits perfectly on the cup, all the materials made a big help to our design. 6 layers of cotton and felt can keep the temperature stay warm, color and outlook are plain but it is useful. For the cup-dressing we used cotton and fabric, you can take the warming code off if needed(to wash/or cold drinks) Thermal energy transfer is the main idea we are learning. I learned a skill about adding materials together, put materials that can keep cool together, as well as add materials that can hold heat together, it will work better on our prototype.
